New Kalabsha, Garf Hussein: MRA-EGY-Gar002
Type Sample Item
Sample ID
- MRA-EGY-Gar002
Sample Material Type
- Mural painting
Sample Sub-type
- fragment
Dimensions (cm)
- Length
- 1
- Width
- 0.8
- Height
- 0.5
- Notes
- Largest fragment
Weight
- weight value (g)
- 0.53
- Notes
- Largest fragment
- weight value (g)
- 1.13
- Notes
- All fragments together
Other info about sample identity
- According to archival research, this sample may have originally been designated as PP/GARF/0025B = Garf Houssein A-10, Brandi, 1958
Geographic Location
- Country
- Egypt
- Place
- New Kalabsha
- Detailed location not available
- no
Site/monument
- Egypt (EGY)
Garf Houssein
Temple of Ptah
Historical note about the site/monument
- The temple of Garf Hussein was built by Setau, the viceroy of Kush (ancient region of Nubia), in honor of the pharaoh Ramesses II, and it was dedicated to the gods Ptah and Hathor. The building was partly carved in the rock, but also had a section which stood out, at the exterior. This part of the temple, which comprehended a colossal statue of the pharaoh and a colonnade, was dismantled and later reconstructed in New Kalabsha, following the works of Aswan dam, in 1960s, as with several other buildings in the same region. The rest of the temple lies beneath the Nile. Noteworthy are the surviving stelae, with high reliefs representing gods and also the pharaoh.
Further reading:
Arnold, Dieter (et. al.), The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2003.
Grimal, Nicolas, A History of Ancient Egypt, Blackwell Books, 1992.
Chronological period (sample)
- 13th-12th century BC
Sample taken by
- Cesare Brandi
Date of sampling
- Unknown
- Yes
- Year/Decade/Century
- 1958
Support
- Moderate (has some deterioration features such as lack of cohesion/adhesion) and ideally should not be removed from its holder
Finishing Layers
- Moderate (has some deterioration features such as lack of cohesion/adhesion) and ideally should not be removed from its holder